NVIDIA GeForce 825M vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 825M and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

NVIDIA GeForce 825M

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 825M

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 40 nm
11.1x lower typical power consumption: 33 Watt vs 365 Watt
Around 5% higher memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 1707 MHz
Around 23% better performance in Geekbench - OpenCL: 15796 vs 12811

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	27 January 2014 vs 24 March 2011
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt vs 365 Watt
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 1707 MHz
Benchmarks
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796 vs 12811

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

Around 43% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 850 MHz
2.6x more texture fill rate: 77.7 billion / sec vs 30.11 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
3.4x better floating-point performance: 2x 1,244.2 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
3x more maximum memory size: 3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 1 GB
4.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 3341 vs 782
Around 60% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 394 vs 247

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	1215 MHz vs 850 MHz
Texture fill rate	77.7 billion / sec vs 30.11 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 384
Floating-point performance	2x 1,244.2 gflops vs 722.7 gflops
Maximum memory size	3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU) vs 1 GB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	3341 vs 782
PassMark - G2D Mark	394 vs 247

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 825M
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

782

3341

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

247

394

Geekbench - OpenCL

GPU 1

GPU 2

15796

12811

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
PassMark - G3D Mark	782	3341
PassMark - G2D Mark	247	394
Geekbench - OpenCL	15796	12811
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		30.921
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1116.126
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.799
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		49.114
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		107.239
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3330
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		4118
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3683
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3330
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score		0

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 825M	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 590
Essentials
Architecture	Kepler 2.0	Fermi 2.0
Code name	GK208	GF110
Launch date	27 January 2014	24 March 2011
Place in performance rating	787	790
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$699
Price now		$184
Value for money (0-100)		30.41
Technical info
Boost clock speed	941 MHz
Core clock speed	850 MHz	1215 MHz
Floating-point performance	722.7 gflops	2x 1,244.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	1024
Texture fill rate	30.11 GTexel / s	77.7 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	33 Watt	365 Watt
Transistor count	1300 Million	3,000 million
CUDA cores		1024
Maximum GPU temperature		97 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort, Three Dual Link DVI-IMini DisplayPort
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 2.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors	None	Two 8-pin
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Length		11" (280 mm) (27.9 cm)
SLI options		Quad
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	3072 MB (1536 MB per GPU)
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s	327.7 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	768-bit (384-bit per GPU)
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	1707 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	GDDR5
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround